Top rated Historical place museums in United Kingdom to elevate your visit (Updated January, 2021)

We'll Meet Again: WW2 Museum: Freiston image

Historical place museum

👍 Very friendly, and helpful staff of the museum! It have some nice variety of unique and interesting WW2 historical exhibits/pieces. From: guns of WW2 (you can touch them and inspect them in person, plus there is some friendly and helpful historical museum guides which gladly help you), military unif...

4.90 (211 reviews)

Arundells

Historical place museum

Medieval house where former Prime Minister Edward Heath lived, with many personal items on display.

4.90 (129 reviews)

Friends of Williamson's Tunnels - FoWT

Historical place museum

👍👍 breathtaking place, you cannot believe people did it more than a century ago! Very nice guide

4.90 (109 reviews)

Big Pit National Coal Museum

Historical place museum

Former colliery with interactive displays on mining life and trips underground guided by ex-miners.

4.80 (5K reviews)

Skara Brae Visitor Centre

Archaeological museum

👍👍 A very nice discovery that shows the every day life of people who inhabited this area 5000 years ago. They have done a wonderful job excavating this site to bring alive the lives of these people.

4.80 (985 reviews)

Harvington Hall

Historical place museum

Elizabethan and Georgian mansion with surviving priest holes and wall paintings, plus a malt house.

4.80 (840 reviews)

D-Day Centre & WW2 Museum - Portland, Dorset

War museum

👍👍 What an amazing museum, absolutely fantastic. Extremely informative with guides willing to answer any questions you may have. Stunning displays of military equipment most of which you can sit in, guns and weapons you can hold. The tank, the spitfire, the hospital truck, all the vehicles, truly amazi...

4.80 (745 reviews)

The Viking Unst Project

Historical place museum

👍👍 Lovely well maintained building and boat well worth stopping in to see

4.80 (130 reviews)

The Govan Stones

Historical place museum

👍👍 An easy 5 stars. Superb display of genuinely fascinating and important historical artefacts. The volunteer guides are incredibly knowledgeable and friendly and took time to make sure my kids enjoyed themselves. This is a superb and free family destination and feels like a Glasgow essential.

4.80 (61 reviews)

Pleasley Pit Coal Mining Museum

Museum

👍👍 This is well worth a visit. Very informative about our mining history. The staff great and its all dog friendly and all they ask for is a small donation because its run by volunteers.

4.80 (51 reviews)

The Merchant's House

History museum

👍👍 This tour is extremely detailed and well worth the fee. It took about 1.5 hrs but really that depends on questions and discussion. The painted details are amazing. Enjoy the gardens at the end as well.

4.80 (47 reviews)